There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

Just that sons and fathersAre like mirrors and daughters are soft

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.